In Washington State, mental health care for Medicaid-eligible children is delivered through
thirteen regional support networks. The estimated statewide prevalence rate for serious …

Background: Children living in poverty—especially children living in rural areas and in areas
lacking a commitment to providing mental health care—have considerable unmet need for …

Twenty percent of all children have a diagnosable mental illness and between five and nine
percent have an illness severe enough to result in impaired functioning (Costello, Mustillo …

Methods To learn in detail about Medicaid and SCHIP policies for children's mental health
coverage, we conducted telephone interviews with state officials in the 13 Assessing the …

United States aims to document and assess how well child mental health policies across the
50 states and three territories respond to the needs of children and youth with mental health …

Abstract In New York State and elsewhere, the lack of outpatient services results in
inappropriate psychiatric hospitalization of children. Funding for specialized mental health …

There is limited empirical evidence documenting the magnitude and correlates of area-level
variability in unmet need for children's mental health services. Research is needed that …

United States. Policy makers have called for a more critical examination of the mental health
treatment system, and advocates are rallying around federal legislation that would …

Abstract Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers for children
increase the availability of public funding for HCBS by waiving or expanding the means tests …

Objective: The study assessed racial-ethnic differences in receipt of mental health services
among children enrolled in systems of care under the Children's Mental Health Initiative …